Beirut, Lebanon — AFP More than 2,000 people marched in the government-held city of Sweida in southern Syria in an anti-regime protest movement that is getting stronger, an activist and a witness said. The protests in Sweida province, the heartland of the country’s Druze minority, began after President Bashar al-Assad’s gover...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – The Syrian army, Iran-backed groups and Russia carried out over 1,400 attacks in Syria’s Idlib and its surrounding areas over the past week, forcing more than 6,000 civilians to flee their homes. According to the Syrian opposition aircraft observatory, the Syrian army and Iran-backed groups targeted villages in the so...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP United States-backed Kurdish-led fighters in northern Syria on Wednesday fought a deadly battle with Turkish-supported forces who said they intervened after clashes killed dozens in an Arab-majority province further east. Days of fighting in eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, which left 90 people dead, had r...
Near Deir Ezzor, Syria – AFP Kurdish-led forces were sending reinforcements to eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor province on Monday amid days of clashes with Arab fighters loyal to a detained local official, an AFP correspondent said. Fighting erupted after the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) detained Ahmad al-Khabil, head of the...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An Iranian soldier from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was killed in Syria, Iranian media reported on Monday. The semi-official Fars News Agency identified the soldier as Yahya Rostami, who was killed on August 31. The agency, however, did not give further details about the circumstances of his death. Iran, which...
Damascus, Syria – AFP Nearly four million Syrians students in government-controlled areas returned to school Sunday, braving the effects of war, a devastating earthquake and a deep economic crisis. But many children do not have classrooms to go to in a country where many educational facilities have been damaged or destroyed and 90 percen...
Bosra al-Sham, Syria – AFP Rare protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government showed no sign of abating Friday with demonstrations reported in a string of towns in Daraa and Sweida provinces. The protests began late last week after the government ended fuel subsidies, dealing a heavy blow to Syrians reeling from ye...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US will not “walk away” from the Middle East, a top general said Thursday, emphasizing the region’s critical role in the country’s national security priorities. During an interview with Jordan’s Al-Mamlaka TV, Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the region is “very im...
Ain Shib, Syria – AFP At least two civilians were killed when Russian air strikes hit an abandoned water pumping station in Syria’s rebel-held northwest, rescuers said Wednesday, amid a recent uptick in attacks by Damascus ally Moscow. Two strikes late Tuesday near Ain Shib, west of the city of Idlib, hit the facility where [&helli...
Afrin, Syria — AFP Syrians in the country’s rebel-held north marked the 10-year anniversary on Monday of chemical attacks that killed over 1,400 people near Damascus — one of the conflict’s many horrors that went unpunished. “I was in such shock. I smelt death,” said paramedic Mohammed Suleiman from Zamalka ...
